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Pinky Dinky Doo harnesses the power of television, print, and interactive media to promote reading and imaginative storytelling. To achieve this, Pinky invites children to participate in funny and fantastic stories, games, and songs that support critical early literacy skills.

Fabulous for use with any subject that can be turned into a story. This is especially good for author projects, history reports, and adaptations of stories. It can be used by teachers from intermediate grades through college, depending on the topic, need, and abilities of the students. Be sure to explore the many links to see how other schools and students have used digital storytelling. Many examples and excellent resources.

Scratch cards provide a quick way to learn new Scratch code. The front of the card shows what you can do; the back shows how to do it. Click to view and print each card.

This is such a good idea. I would love to make Kurzweil trading cards along these lines. In my spare time...

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

You read a snippet of a story and then you click 'read more' at which time you are presented with unique paths to continue the story. You choose. If you wish you can then add to the story by grafting your own snippet onto the story. Popular snippets get ranked and continue, unpopular snippets disappear.